Word: propped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Euclides was knocked to the ground. His laço- snapped off. With 3½ metres of laço- wound around his propeller hub, the startled pilot headed for home. Though the wooden prop was cracked, he made it safely. The flying club grounded him; the girl threw him over. And Euclides, the only cowboy ever to lasso an airplane, was once again the lion of the dark-eyed ladies of Rio Grande...
...next few days two other groups are meeting, the N.C.A.A. and the American Football Coaches Association (Lloyd Jordan, prop.). The former group will discuss spring football practice--probable result: allowing only 20 sessions per spring. The later group will discuss the free substitution rule--probable result: much talk, no change. But the N.C.A.A. will also confer, hotly and heavily, on bowls and recruiting...
...Berkeley mining engineer and big-game hunter named Leslie Simson. He found a home for the carcasses at the academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed the project. Prop Artist Velma Harris cut and painted the paper vegetation-and, incidentally, put to good use some African bamboo stalks that had been in the storeroom for 21 years. Two painstaking realists, Belmore Brown and Toshio Asaeda, did the background landscapes...
Those who drink more also come from wealthier families, and tend to be prop school graduates. Fewer of them have scholarships, take part-time jobs, or work for honors in their academic fields. Pugh says that "It might tentatively be suggested as a hypothesis that lower class students, who are by definition trying to be socially mobile upward through the education channel, must be more interested in the formal curricular and so do not have the time or the money to drink as much or so often...
This will be the prop-schoolers second game. Last Saturday they beat Brooks School...